Little Chelsea, became the fourth earl, and distinguished himself
in the military, scientific, and literary proceedings of his times. In
compliment to this Lord Orrery's patronage, Graham, an ingenious
watchmaker, named after his lordship a piece of mechanism which exhibits
the movements of the heavenly bodies. With his brother's death, however,
in 1703, at Earl's Court, Kensington, the connection of the Boyle family
with this neighbourhood appears to terminate.

Doctor Baldwin Hamey, an eminent medical practitioner during the time of
the Commonwealth, and a considerable benefactor to the College of
Physicians, died at Little Chelsea on the 14th of May, 1676, after an
honourable retirement from his professional duties of more than ten
years.

Mr. Faulkner's 'History of Kensington,' published in 1820, and in which
parish the portion of Little Chelsea on the north side of the Fulham Road
stands, mentions the residence of Sir Bartholomew Shower, an eminent
lawyer, in 1693; Sir Edward Ward, lord chief baron of the Exchequer, in
1697; Edward Fowler, lord bishop of Gloucester, in 1709, who died at his
house here on the 26th August, 1714; and Sir William Dawes, lord bishop
of Chester, in 1709, who, I may add, died Archbishop of York in 1724.
But in Mr. Faulkner's 'History of Chelsea,' published in 1829, nothing
more is to be found respecting Sir Bartholomew Shower than that he was
engaged in some parochial law proceedings in 1691. Sir Edward Ward's
residence is unnoticed. The Bishop of Gloucester, who is said to have
been a devout believer in fairies and witchcraft, is enumerated among the
inhabitants of Paradise Row, Chelsea (near the hospital, and full a mile
distant from _le petit Chelsey_); and Sir William Dawes, we find from
various entries, an inhabitant of the parish between the years 1696 and
1712, but without "a local habitation" being assigned to him. All this
is very unsatisfactory to any one whose appetite craves after map-like
accuracy in parish affairs.

Bowack, in 1705, mentions that

"At Little Chelsea stands a regular handsome house, with a noble
courtyard and good gardens, built by Mr. Mart, now inhabited by Sir
John Cope, Bart., a gentleman of an ancient and honourable family,
who formerly was eminent in the service of his country abroad, and
for many years of late in Parliament, till he voluntarily retired
here to end his days in peace."

And here Sir John Cope died in 172